Houston, We Have a Problem

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/10/19/173634/85

Houston, We Have a Problem

by BooMan
Tue Oct 19th, 2010 at 05:36:34 PM EST


Republican Gov. Rick Perry is really running a nice show down in Texas. First the warehouse housing all Harris County (Houston's) voting equipment burned up in a suspicious fire, and now thugs are harassing voters at minority early-voting precincts. Of course, the fire caused a shortage of machines because they couldn't borrow or gain delivery of enough new ones to replace all the ones that were lost in time for election day. Thus, officials are stressing the importance of early voting. I don't think this skulduggery is going to work:

Voters came out in droves on Monday, Oct. 18, the first day of early voting for the 2010 elections. The Kingwood Branch Library and Octavia Fields Branch Library (in Humble) in particular had continuous 15 to 20 minute wait-times just to get in to vote.

Early voting has been urged due to the late-August fire that destroyed voting machines in Harris County.

Judge Lynn Bradshaw-Hull, running for the 280th district court, was pleased with the turnout.

“I’m not surprised at this turnout,” she said. “It’s contagious how excited people are about the early voting.”

Christy Whittington, head librarian at Kingwood Library, said it was proof of the democratic process at work, and that it was really nice to see such a good turnout.

Diane Trautman, who is running for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector, was impressed.

“I’m thrilled to see so many voters out,” she said. “I think the voters are taking their choices very seriously, and I hope to see the same level of turnout and participation throughout the early vote process.”

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In all, 26,051 ballots were cast in Harris County on day one of early voting; the Kingwood Library alone had 1,332 votes cast.

The more they try to depress turnout, the more fired up people get.

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[Lebam in LA]

2. K&R

:kick: #5

[bemildred]

3. K&R. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. phuk them with a rusty 2x4 filled with nails

er, make that rusty nails.

[pacalo]

5. It doesn't say in the article who was urging early voting, so I wonder

if it's the Democrats doing the urging because they might view the warehouse fire as a calculated way for election thieves to replace existing machines with rigged ones?

[glitch]

6. Don't give it away, make them steal it. VOTE.

Good for Harris County for getting it.

[onestepforward]

7. Kingwood is 90% rethug.

Let me tell you, they are fired up, hosting teabag parties, etc. Humble leans strongly right too, just not as much.

[RainDog]

8. Do the people of Texas need to have international poll watchers like other failed nations?

seems like it.

[Tx4obama]

9. I'm early voting dem tomorrow here in Houston.

1) I received a phone call from a real person doing phone surveys for Bill White (D-gov candidate) letting us know when early voting started.
2) On the Bill White website there is a link that shows where to early vote in each county http://www.billwhitefortexas.com/ev/

I have high hopes of Bill White winning.
We're fed up with Rick Perry's BS.

In the 2008 election, even though Obama didn't win our state, Obama won the majority our of largest cities/counties were the educated people reside: Austin/Travis, Dallas/Dallas, Houston/Travis, El Paso, San Antonio, etc.

I can totally see Texas being a BLUE state in 2012 :)

[Scurrilous]

10. K & R

:thumbsup:

[snot]

11. Were the burned machines replaced with electronic ones?